{"id":99627,"date":"2019-12-11T11:02:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T19:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/heat-energy-leaps-through-empty-space-thanks-to-quantum-weirdness"},"modified":"2019-12-11T11:02:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T19:02:38","slug":"heat-energy-leaps-through-empty-space-thanks-to-quantum-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/heat-energy-leaps-through-empty-space-thanks-to-quantum-weirdness","title":{"rendered":"Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heat-energy-leaps-through-empty-space-thanks-to-quantum-weirdness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you use a vacuum-insulated thermos to help keep your coffee hot, you may know it\u2019s a good insulator because heat energy has a hard time moving through empty space. Vibrations of atoms or molecules, which carry thermal energy, simply can\u2019t travel if there are no atoms or molecules around.<\/p>\n<p>But a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, shows how the weirdness of quantum mechanics can turn even this basic tenet of classical physics on its head.<\/p>\n<p>The study, appearing this week in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heat+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heat energy<\/a> can leap across a few hundred nanometers of a complete vacuum, thanks to a quantum mechanical phenomenon called the Casimir interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use a vacuum-insulated thermos to help keep your coffee hot, you may know it\u2019s a good insulator because heat energy has a hard time moving through empty space. Vibrations of atoms or molecules, which carry thermal energy, simply can\u2019t travel if there are no atoms or molecules around. But a new study by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}